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A projectile hit a cargo ship Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz, setting the vessel ablaze after the United States targeted Iranian minelaying vessels that could target the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center, run by the British military, said the vessel had been hit just north of Oman in the strait.
It said the crew was evacuating the ship.
Iran did not immediately claim the attack though it has been targeting ships in and around the strait, disrupting a waterway that sees a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded pass through it.
Along with lobbing missiles at neighboring nations, the intentional targeting of foreign flagged ships by Iran is likely an attempt to force external pressure by the rest of the world on President Trump to cease fire and call it quits. It's a race against time for the US and Israel to either destroy and/or degrade Iran's retaliatory/strike capabilities before they have a chance to use them or otherwise exhaust their stocks of these missiles and make them surrender. My concern is the Chi-Coms. They are desperate for and rely heavily on Iranian oil. If the Strait of Hormuz is cut off, how will they react to force it open. And in any case, a collapse of the Mullahocracy means loss of a strategic regional ally, assuming a Trump-approved government takes its place, which might also put a serious crimp in China's access to the oil it needs. All of that in my mind could perhaps push Xi to make a move on Taiwan.
In a private meeting, James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, encouraged House Republicans to adjust how they discuss immigration. He suggested shifting away from talk of “mass deportations” and narrowing the administration’s efforts to deport only confirmed dangerous criminals.This guidance arises from worries that Democrats are effectively painting Trump’s immigration approach as excessively sweeping, despite President Donald J. Trump campaigning on an ambiguous promise to deport all illegal aliens. Blair reportedly shared these thoughts in a policy discussion at the yearly House Republican retreat held in Doral, Florida. . . The shift is drawing sharp criticism from many in the President’s MAGA base, some of whom were already unhappy with the administration’s embrace of neoconservative foreign policy by launching the ongoing war in Iran. “I voted for no new wars & mass deportations. Why are we stopping the mass deportations and starting a new war?” asked Caroline Sunshine, who acted as deputy communications director for the Trump 2024 campaign.
"Death to America" is not merely a sweet little nothing you whisper in a Vassar co-ed's ear to get her to hop into the sack with you (Of course failing that, there's always rape in the name of decolonization!) This has been Iran's national motto and battle cry since 1979. President Trump is merely the first president in all that time to take them at their word and is doing what he can and must to prevent that from happening, unlike any of his predecessors in all that time, one in particular who actually shared that view. Of course I mean Barack Hussein Obama who did more to aid and abet the Iranian nuclear weapons program by giving them political/diplomatic cover/legitimacy and shoveling billions of dollars at them. Obama was the black Tucker Carlson of the Rosenbergs.
But I digress. Wow did I digress! As far as illegal aliens are concerned. Sorry, but all of them regardless of criminal record or lack thereof are a danger and threat to our safety, security and to societal cohesion in general.
To James Blair, I say, justify to me how it is in the best interest of this nation to allow anyone who came here illegally to remain here and benefit — and that is the perfect word to use — from being here at the cost to our fellow citizens, monetarily and otherwise. Awarding and encouraging criminal behavior is antithetical to the founding of this nation and to its moral and ethical underpinnings that are the basis or are supposed to be the basis of our society and government.
Sorry, this is an absolute non-starter for me. Every one of the millions, perhaps 44 million or more by now, foreigners here on our soil without our approval and permission must be removed. No ifs ands or buts. With that in mind, I give you this, your emetic of the day:
Rachel Zegler, the woke actress who played the woke Hispanic Snow White for the 2025 live action Disney movie recently addressed the tremendous backlash she received for her performance in the film, finally concluding with this sentiment: “I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.”
Oh, you don’t say. . .
. . . So Zegler doesn’t want to assimilate because she comes first—like every other foreigner living off the comforts and privileges America affords while actively working to destroy it.
And Zegler I am assuming is a legal immigrant! To me this is someone defecating on the grave of my dear mother of blessed memory, who survived Mauthausen, forced labor brigades and a death march and waiting for four years to arrive here and kissed the ground when she stepped on American soil. She refused to teach me her native tongue, Hungarian, because of what they did to her and her family in aiding and abetting the Nazis in virtually wiping out the second largest Jewish population in Europe. Fuck you, and vayr gehargit, Rachel Zegler.
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Seven U.S. troops have tragically died in Iranian regime counterstrikes since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, and the president paid his respects to the remains of six of them last week at Dover. Subsequently, Trump also spoke to the press on Monday and emphasized that parents of the service members who gave the last full measure of devotion want the president to finish off the task that their loved ones offered their lives to achieve. This must be no Vietnam War, no waste of the lives of our most courageous and honorable young men and women. Fallen Troops’ Families Told Trump ‘Finish the Job’ on Iran
. . .he ugly truth about the Islamic terrorist campaign against America and its alliance with the Marxist Left —The Freedom Center’s new pamphlet reveals the hidden history of Iran’s 47-year war against America. Why We’re At War With Iran
Lefty advocates for women in sports like Megan Rapinoe, Jemele Hill and Keith Olbermann — who normally race toward open microphones to fulminate about Trump, trans kids, ICE and pay equity — are remarkably quiet over the plight of the Iranian women’s soccer team. These brave footballers held their ground at an Asian Cup match in Brisbane last week, refusing to sing the anthem of the brutal Islamic Republic, fresh off slaughtering tens of thousands of heroic protesters demonstrating against the despotic regime. Why isn’t motormouth Megan Rapinoe using her megaphone for Iran’s female soccer team?
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on technological competition, the politics of AI, and how a poor state became a model for American growth The State That Says Yes
Due to sky-high taxation and all-around government incompetence, California has shifted from the Gold Rush state to the Outrush state. Failifornia
Betsy McCaughey: It’s not just New York and California: All across the nation, blue states are committing political and economic suicide by targeting millionaires with high taxes. Who will suffer most from this ideologically driven push to punish the wealthy? Wage workers and the poor. Blue states are committing tax suicide — their mania is contagious
“On Saturday,” Mamdani began, “a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion, where I live with my wife Rama. Neither of us were home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy, entitled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.” To lead off with this is to try to give the impression, as the establishment media did, that the “vile” protesters who opposed the “Islamic Takeover of New York City” were behind the bombing. After ISIS Bombing in New York, Mamdani Condemns Islamic Terrorism — Nah, Just Kidding
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The incident highlights ongoing issues with free speech on social media platforms, and the influence of foreign censorship laws on American citizens, including elected officials. Musk’s X Censors GOP Congressman for Anti-Islam Tweet.
Establishment elites have begun seeding the narrative that Vice President JD Vance and the GOP are locked in an internecine battle over artificial intelligence, one that could derail Vance’s ascent as the heir apparent to carry President Donald Trump’s MAGA mantle forward. CODE RED: Why JD Vance’s Framing of AI Will Define the Future of Global Politics
Toth, who defeated Crenshaw Tuesday in the Republican primary for Crenshaw’s House seat, is endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is his bid to defeat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the primary runoff to represent the Lone Star State in the United States Senate. Exclusive – Steve Toth Endorses Ken Paxton for Senate over John Cornyn
Calling Texas’ Democrat senatorial candidate James Talarico, even derisively, a “bible-banger” is a disservice to bible-bangers. Talarico, With His Left Hand on the Bible
The apparent lack of broad European support for the U.S. strikes on Iran signals the continent could be approaching a turning point by deciding whether it will maintain economic dependence on Washington or Beijing — or take matters into its own hands. Europe Leaving America In Dust After Years Of Being Beholden To China
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The tracking system is perhaps the most revealing part of the whole thing, because it shows how the state wants this market treated.Georgia would require retailers to enter purchaser information into a real-time electronic logging system, complete with names, addresses, identification details, product information, and timestamps, and law enforcement would have direct access to the data. Georgia’s Kratom Crackdown Runs Against RFK’s Health Vision, Creates Govt Database of Buyers.
Oz now oversees the agency responsible for administering federal health programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act marketplace. During remarks on the problem, Oz stated that fraudulent enrollments and unauthorized changes to insurance policies resulted in significant financial losses for the federal government. Oz also warned that the system's structure made it easier for dishonest brokers to exploit weaknesses in the enrollment process. Federal officials have begun tightening verification requirements to prevent additional abuse. Dr. Mehmet Oz Says Millions Lost to Obamacare Fraud. What Else Were We Told Wrong?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The spacecraft weighs a bit over 1,300 pounds, which places it among the larger objects expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere in an uncontrolled descent. Most of the structure will burn up during reentry, although some components could survive the intense heat and fall to the surface. NASA engineers believe the risk of injury remains extremely low, though the spacecraft's exact landing can't be predicted with precision. A 1,300-Pound NASA Satellite Is Falling Back to Earth. What Could Go Wrong?
I want to highlight two numbers — 19 and 39 — in order to illustrate how SpaceX does things versus NASA. Not only has SpaceX already completed eleven test flights of Starship/Superheavy, it has tested or flown 19 and 39 prototypes of each, in one manner or another. The company has a very rich history of hardware and testing as it ramps up towards operational flights. This practically guarantees that those operational flights will not only occur relatively soon, they will be relatively safe and robust. SpaceX now targeting early April for next Starship/Superheavy test flight
I have searched the New Horizons’ press release archive, and as far as I can tell, this sequence of images and the terrain it shows was never highlighted publicly by the science team. Pluto’s cratered glacial terrain
Fischer takes full advantage of this very complete record, which made it possible for him to tell the story of almost every participant, in a human and very personal way. Thus, as you read his book it actually feels like you are on our modern social media, where everyone takes out a smart phone to record what’s happening, thus providing us all with many different perspectives of the same event. Only here those perspectives come from the written word, penned with thoughtful attention and a passionate dedication to telling the truth, as each person saw it. Who fired “the shot heard round the world?” (Bobby Thomson for $500, Alex- jjs)
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He's focusing on world models, one of his four essential advances required for AI that actually justifies the I. Basically fact database alongside the LLM's word salad.
There hasn't been much point until now - launch costs were too high for it to make sense to even consider repairing and reusing older satellites. But that may be changing.
It has half the battery capacity of the MacBook Pro. On heavy workloads its low-power CPU keeps the battery from draining too quickly - though it's also slow. On light workloads the MacBook Pro shines twice as long.
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Disclaimer: No CGI. Just 16 hours a day for three straight days to set up and film three minutes of video.
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 10, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday night ONT. Very nice springtime weather in my neck of the woods today. How about you? Anything fun and exciting going on with anyone here tonight? Something on your mind? Let's hear it!
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My sister was at Jimmy's for dinner tonight with her husband and daughter. My niece was very excited that she saw an influencer there interviewing someone from the staff. Still amazing how much attention and business they are getting thanks to the Huff Post. I haven't been there since the "GFY heard 'round the world". Hopefully soon!
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The 90s finds out about the future
If you are longing for a simpler time that is now gone forever, this video will likely hit HARD… 🥲 pic.twitter.com/xJcp4i9GKw
A woman in Ohio made more than 1,700 fraudulent returns at Home Depot locations in multiple states.
Medina County prosecutors said Tracy A. James used counterfeit driver’s licenses and aliases to obtain store credit through fraudulent merchandise returns over several years at numerous Home Depot locations.
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Investigators said James’s scheme totaled $266,699 in fraudulent store credit she then used to buy merchandise she later resold online.
AI can generate a perfect email but it cannot read the room, sense the tension, or know when the real conversation is the one nobody is having
Have you ever watched a twenty-six-year-old try to figure out why a meeting went sideways when every word spoken in the meeting was perfectly reasonable? I have. I spent decades in workplaces where the official conversation and the actual conversation were two entirely different things, and the ability to tell them apart had nothing to do with intelligence or technical skill. It had to do with years.
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That ability has a name. Psychologists call it emotional intelligence. And in 2026, as AI reshapes nearly every industry on the planet, it turns out that the thing older workers have been quietly accumulating for decades is the one thing the machines can’t replicate.
Very interesting article. Definitely check it out.
My best friend is Hannah, and her grandpa, Franz, owned a sporting goods store in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. When he went out of business, he boxed up his stock, and the unused items sat in a storage unit from 1990 until 2021.
In the summer of 2021, Hannah's mom called my mom, who is an organizer for hoarders, asking for help with the storage unit. She didn't know what to do with the stuff, and knew my mom had experience in that realm.
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It's really hard to put a number on how many items were in the storage unit. It was 10,000 pairs of shoes, 25,000 hats, 2,500 pairs of baseball pants, all in 1,000 square feet, all from a single store.
The brands Franz had were Nike, Adidas, Puma, Converse, Playboy, Pony, Champion, Wilson, and more. Teams were covered in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and collegiate sports.
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It was such a large inventory; we weren't sure how to tackle it. It's all been very word-of-mouth. We had our first sale at a flea market in early 2022. We currently sell privately on social media and on our website, which went live in December 2025.
On the website, we do 25 items per drop, and do two drops a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays. It's first-come, first-served. Not all merchandise is on the website; it's about a tenth of what we have. So we're really selective with the drops because everything is so rare and special.
Cool story. Like, totally rad!
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The Iran situation simplified
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Born on this date in 1964: Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper Neneh Cherry, who had the 1988 UK & US No.3 single 'Buffalo Stance'
Born on this date in 1966: American singer-songwriter Edie Brickell best known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went to No. 4 on the Billboard Albums chart and featured the Top Ten single 'What I Am'. Brickell married Paul Simon in 1992.
Born on this date in 1983: Carrie Underwood, American pop country music singer, winner of the fourth season of American Idol.
That may very well be my favorite vocal performance ever.
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President Trump said Sunday he will refuse to sign any additional legislation until Congress passes the SAVE America Act, escalating pressure on lawmakers to move what he has repeatedly described as a cornerstone election integrity measure.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump declared the legislation "must go to the front of the line," signaling that securing the bill's passage now takes priority over any other items on the legislative agenda.
The president also singled out election integrity activist Scott Presler for his advocacy, praising his recent appearance on Fox & Friends and urging lawmakers to use every available tool to get the measure across the finish line.
"Great Job by hard working Scott Pressler on Fox & Friends talking about using the Filibuster, or Talking Filibuster, in order to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, an 88% issue with ALL VOTERS," Trump wrote.
"It must be done immediately. It supersedes everything else. MUST GO TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE. I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION -- GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP."
Trump added that the legislation should also include limits on mail-in ballots and other cultural policy priorities he has championed, warning lawmakers plainly: "DO NOT FAIL!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP."
The SAVE America Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, mandate voter identification, and direct states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls while coordinating voter registration databases with the Department of Homeland Security.
Trump has repeatedly framed the legislation as a defining political battle, telling Republicans that securing the measure is essential to protecting American elections.
According to a February 25--26 Harvard-Harris poll of 1,999 registered voters, the proposal enjoys broad support across the electorate.
The survey found 71 percent overall backing for the measure's core provisions, including proof-of-citizenship requirements and voter ID rules.
Support was strongest among Republicans at 91 percent, while 69 percent of independents and 50 percent of Democrats also said they support the reforms.
Trump has also injected the legislation into the developing Republican primary battle for the Texas Senate seat, privately telling Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Texas Sen. John Cornyn that he wants the SAVE America Act on his desk before issuing an endorsement in the race.
Trump wants Thune to require that any "filibuster" be a real filibuster, that is, a "talking filibuster" in which senators are actually required to, you know, filibuster by speaking for as long as they can to delay a vote. Not just voting to "filibuster." Which is what our old, lazy senators have permitted for decades, because they can't stand the rigors of an actual filibuster.
Katie Couric made an anti-gun documentary, and in the climactic scene, she asked a room full of gun owners a tough question, to which they had no answer. It was a total fabrication. They edited in silence from another point. In truth, the gun owners all had answers. Nobody… https://t.co/42EfJpN3QQ
Unrelated: Disney's Gay News Division spins the bomb-throwing terrorist as an "activist" and his intended victim as a "far-right" influencer.
In the upside-down of leftism, terrorists are activists, and activists — like Christians praying outside abortion clinics — are terrorists. pic.twitter.com/9ouunyP1Ue
They also spent money on other gay shit of various natures.
A bizarre exchange on Capitol Hill last week put the spotlight back on how taxpayer dollars were spent under the Biden administration after a State Department official struggled to explain grants tied to diversity programs abroad -- including one she described as an effort to make certain maps "more gay."
The moment unfolded during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing where Rep. Brian Mast pressed State Department Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers about several taxpayer-funded initiatives tied to DEI programs during the administration of Joe Biden.
"Can you tell me what is queering the map?" Mast asked, referring to a grant referenced in the State Department's public diplomacy spending.
"So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay," Rogers replied.
Mast immediately pushed back. "Literally? How do you make a map more gay? Or gay at all?" he asked.
Rogers conceded she couldn't explain it.
"I don't know," she said. "Since the age of cartography, we've had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren't gay enough."
She suggested the wording may have come from academic language around critical theory, noting that "sometimes people use 'queer' as a verb." Rogers added that the project may have involved maps related to Czechia and Slovakia, though she acknowledged she was unsure of the details.
"So maybe those countries asked for it," she said. "I doubt it, but I don't know."
The exchange drew visible disbelief from Mast.
The Florida Republican then began listing several other projects funded through similar grants, describing a series of diversity and inclusion initiatives sponsored by the State Department around the world.
Among them were programs focused on "non-binary and transfrancophones" and research into "linguistic attitudes and ideologies toward inclusive French" in Montreal, Canada.
A California professor laid out an argument for tossing out sexual identifiers, as terms like gay and lesbian 'harms trans people,' they claimed.
Brandon Andrew Robinson, an associate professor at the University of California, spoke on the matter with the university while promoting their book, 'Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom.'
Robinson, who uses they/them pronouns, argued that 'identities limit us' and the ongoing creation of unlimited new identities demonstrates how such labels 'fail to capture the full complexities of gender, sexualities and desire.'
They particularly noted hyper-specific identities, such as gynosexual, sapiosexual, asexual or pansexual.
'It's a several-fold argument,' Robinson told UC Riverside. 'First, I want people to question why we privilege gender and genitals above all other attributes - like height or race - when we conceptualize our sexual identity.'
They continued on to argue that the term 'gay,' referring to a man being attracted to a man, 'assumes a man is a stable, inherent category.'
'When history shows the definition of manhood is constantly changing,' they said.
'Gender essentialism [the belief that men and women possess inherent, fixed traits determined by biology that define their identity and gender roles] also harms trans people, who often complicate those binary boundaries.'
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Robinson argued that, without such labels and identifiers, society would be able to reconstruct on a more biological outlook of humanity instead of focusing on the current defined gender roles and how they affect a persons sexuality.
'It allows us to explore our desires beyond labels that often confine and constrain us. And it allows us to explore our desires beyond shame that often comes with many labels as well,' Robinson said.
Robinson's book was created through research they conducted on Reddit and through around 48 Zoom interviews with transgender women or trans people who identify with a feminine gender expression.
'I wanted to see how people were talking about their desires for trans people, and how trans people were talking about their own desires around dating,' Robinson said.
'In less than 12 hours, I got over 100 responses. I think many trans women were enthusiastic about joining because they had never been asked about this part of their lives before.'
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They previously authored 'Coming Out To the Streets' and co-authored 'Race and Sexuality.'
$100 Million Gender Studies Thesis Statement The Bride! Is One of the Worst Feminist "Movie" Disasters in History (and They've Almost All Been Disasters)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Howard Stern is a big ugly gassy idiot, but he did have a point when he talked about Spike Lee's overpoduced, overpromoted, and over-budgeted "college movies."
You know what makes a college movie? To borrow a word from Woody Allen, they're painfully didactic. They are all about Teaching the viewer. There should be some irony detected here -- people who just got out of their diapers fifteen years ago are now presuming to be wise teachers educating the rest of us -- but there's not, because college kids are largely idiots.
I know because I once was one. But don't feel bad, college students. Adults are largely idiots too.
And of course college students don't know any better -- their entire lives have consisted of nothing but sitting in class being lectured to, so of course when they try to dream up an "original" "story," the "story" consists of something at the head of a lecture hall lecturing people sitting in lecture-hall-stye seats.
All they know is sitting in class listening to someone spout wisdom at them. So of course that's what they think a "movie" ought to be.
No one wants to pay to see college student "movies." As ugly idiot Howard Stern correctly managed to discern, not even the black people Spike Lee intended to lecture showed up for his black college student films. They all went to see Steven Seagall karate movies. Only terminally white-guilted progressive idiots gave to their Woke Church and put alms in the basket at Spike Lee student films.
No one wants to be lectured at, especially not by someone who is transparently a fucking MORON, and honestly, it's only people who are fucking morons who would imagine that people are going to pay money to see a lecture from a fucking moron.
The Bride! -- exclamation point part of the official title, in case you weren't sure this student film was by someone with a college sophomore Look At Me, I'm Quirky and Deep mentality -- was dreamed up when Ugly Weird-Looking Hag Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal realized that when Victor Von Frankenstein created the bride of Frankenstein in the 1930s sequel, he had never bothered to seek consent from the dead body he was reanimating.
This is an observation which blends my two favorite things, retard-level obviousness and retard-level obsession with Feminism 101 ideology.
Ugly Weird-Looking Hag Actress Maggie Gyllenhall, having never advanced past a 19-year-old stage of development, was smitten with her brilliant idea of making a $100 million movie to correct and critique the 1930s classic for its complete refusal to address the complex and nuanced question of consent in animating dead bodies in a fantasy horror movie, and because this was pitched during after the death of George Floyd, when the nation came together to say, once and for all, that Black Lives Matter, and, even more important than Black Lives Mattering, pampered and entitled white women ought to have All The Jobs, Warner Bros. bankrolled this student film.
The movie is so bad that even woke feminist reviewers are trashing it as embarrassing. All of these movies are embarrassing, but usually they Make Pretend and give these bombs positive reviews. But this is so embarrassing it casts genuine doubt on women's competency to even be film-makers, and so even the feminist wokies are forced to denounce it as a matter of self-protection and to make sure that All the Jobs will continue going to unqualified nepo-baby AWFULs.
A clunky framing device, filmed in black and white in an otherwise color picture and recurring throughout the film, features the spirit of "Frankenstein" author Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley), who speaks to us from beyond the grave. Amid much vamping and cackling, she tells us that since her death she has been summoning her strength to the point that now, in 1936, she has gained the ability to control the mind of a woman named Ida (also played by Ms. Buckley), who is working undercover as a floozy for the police gathering evidence against a Chicago mobster. With Shelley remote-controlling her brain, Ida turns into a crazed party girl, dies falling down stairs, and goes to her grave. Temporarily...
Ida, after getting a little jump-start in the Euphronious lab, returns to life as the unnamed mate for "Frank," as she calls him. Spitting up black phlegm and shouting out strings of word-association gibberish, Ms. Buckley quickly becomes the centerpiece of the movie, or rather its central headache. Her overacting meets Ms. Gyllenhaal's over-filmmaking like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.
The director would like to be credited (wouldn't everyone?) with creating a punk-rock update of a classic. What she presents is more like the world's campiest cabaret act, with the Bride as a mashup of Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis and maybe Natasha Lyonne. Ms. Buckley, talking a mile a minute, flouncing through the sets, and switching accents like a Robin Williams standup routine minus the jokes, is meant to be the ultra-liberated spirit of Woman, a canny chaos agent who doesn't give a flying fig about patriarchal expectations. She even finds a reason to shout "Me too!" a couple of times.
Variety admits that the movie has been "completely rejected" by audiences:
It was a complete rejection by moviegoers around the world this weekend as Maggie Gyllenhaal's $80 million bride of Frankenstein monster movie The Bride! opened to $13.6 million...
Industry sources, not Warners, believe the loss on The Bride! could approach $90M in its first cycle after home entertainment downstream. Note, it will be a while before the ultimate red ink is realized. Warner Bros declined comment about the movie's P&L, which includes $65M in worldwide P&A.
The movie cost $80 million, and is said to have cost another $20 million on that for movie-saving reshoots, which did not save the movie. On top of that, they spent $65 million in Prints and Advertising (P&A), and since most movies are now very cheaply delivered digitally, not in the form of expensive reels of film, I have to imagine that 98% of the P&A budget is just advertising.
And, as I can't point out enough, theaters take about 50% of the ticket price, so the tiny takings are halved.
Midnight's Edge said that maybe if this turd had come out when it should have come out -- a year after George Floyd, when people were unreceptive to Woke "Entertainment" but not yet hostile to it, maybe this piece of absolute garbage would have broke even.
But now? In 2026?
As the congressmen said about tampons in the men's bathroom at Netflix, "What year is this? 2020?"
WDW-Pro reminds us of two other recent feminist flops -- Snow White, of course, and one that was in and out of theaters so quickly you probably never even heard of it, Disney's Ella McKay, a movie about a lightly-fictionalized Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez style reformer.
Which was also what Snow White was about, come to think of it.
And here's Maggie Gyllenhaal to make the utterly self-interested argument that no matter how unqualified a wannabe female director is, you owe pampered white AWFULs All the Jobs, because they've been "silenced" for so long.
Not long enough.
It always rankled me that this woman was ever chosen as the love interest in a Batman movie. pic.twitter.com/uXU3A5prXa
David French: The Transing-Children-Obsessed, Abortion-Promoting James Talarico Is a Truer Christian Than All Fifty Million Christians Who Voted for Trump
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Look, watching your wife's vagine getting blown out every night like a sasquatch's old gym sock by a parade of homeless male prostitutes has got to take a toll on your soul.
Bonus points for making occasional insincere references to Jesus.
Sixteen months after Kamala Harris cackled her way into a loss to President Trump, the Democratic Party seems to have realized its candidates need an image makeover to get voters to forget what their team actually believes.
The name of the game is acting normal and talking like a moderate.
For Democrats, that's a stretch.
James Talarico of Texas is their bright new "moderate" hope.
He won a US Senate primary election this week largely by touting his Christianity, being respectful to his opponents, and generally presenting himself as the boy-next-door counterweight to his excitable opponent, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas).
Look at this sane man, declared the media.
Time magazine touted his "authenticity" and gushed, "It's populism and piety, the proletariat and the Pharisees all rolled into a Texas-sized operation."
The Washington Post highlighted how Talarico was "leaning in to his Christian faith in political debate, an atypical approach for a Democrat."
The New Yorker's soft-focus photo accompanied a fawning piece that described Talarico as looking "like he'd just finished his paper route and was eager to shovel the church's walk."
It did the trick for the Lone Star State's Democrats.
But the moderate façade may already be crumbling.
In 2020, Talarico was tweeting about the "virus" of "racism."
Who had it? White people, he said -- all of them.
"White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus," he posted. "But we spread it wherever we go -- through our words, our actions, and our systems.
"We don't have to be showing symptoms -- like a white hood or a Confederate flag -- to be contagious."
This is what passes for "normal" among Democrats?
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In 2021, Talarico, a member of the state legislature, argued in favor of a bill that would allow biological boys to play in girls' sports.
"God is nonbinary," he declared on the state House floor.
"The thing I want us all to be aware of is ... modern science obviously recognizes there are many more than two biological sexes," he went on. "In fact, there are six."
Believing in six (or more!) genders is insane enough to most of us -- but six biological sexes?
The mind reels.
That same year, Talarico very proudly announced that his office was the first to put pronouns on staffers' business cards.
Obviously, the Satanic Pharisee David French is all-in on Talarico.
David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico
James Talarico's fake tent show preacher act has been a joke since the moment he began it, and every living animal with a central nervous system is aware of this. For that matter, the geranium on your front porch may be aware of it. Pro-abortion, pro-trans, pro-trans-abortion for all six genders, Talarico's much-derided sermonizing on the far-left Jesus he made up somewhere inside his cotton candy mind is ludicrous, appalling, embarrassing, and give me a minute while I load up all the pejoratives I can fit on this forklift. See, if you haven't already, this discussion at First Things: "James Talarico's Backward Christianity." No one is dumb enough to buy this stuff.
Okay, almost no one.
In a moment we should have seen coming, New York Times columnist David French has just gushed out a shameless celebration of Talarico's insane nonsense, every word of which should qualify the worst op-ed prostitute in America for urgent psychiatric intervention. Here's a whole paragraph: "Or, to put it another way, Talarico is one of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian, and by acting like a Christian he reveals a profound contrast with so many members of the MAGA Christian movement that's dominated American political life for 10 years."
A challenge: Find the evidence French offers for the claim that Talarico "acts like a Christian." He cites some speeches, but speeches aren't actions. How, in David French's conception, does James Talarico live like a Christian, by his actions, and what does he think that means? Hang onto this point, because we'll be coming back to it.
But then go on to the characterization of MAGA as a Christian movement, full stop, as if no one would argue. Quick: Name the top three speeches Donald Trump has made in which he used the Bible as an argument for his political program. Discuss, in detail, the specific policy influence of Trump's pastor, who you should be able to name if we're talking about a Christian nationalist ideologue. Or, as a shortcut, just show the evidence French has ever presented to prove that MAGA is primarily theological, and that Trump's first instinct is to steer by religious faith. French doesn't argue this, because he can't. He just says it. It's a noise he makes, endlessly. It has no meaning of any kind.
David French invented the Christian nationalist MAGA argument into being, like Christopher Steele with a pee tape, and now he acts like his strawman is real. Donald Trump is a secular real estate developer who became a secular television figure who became a secular politician who treats Christians like he doesn't hate them. This is supposed to be "Christian nationalism."
Pointing at Talarico's supposed decency, French writes approvingly that the Texas politician "criticized the evangelical focus on abortion and homosexuality in politics," which Talarico describes as "two issues that Jesus never talked about." See, true Christians like Talarico know that Jesus wants you to have a lot of gay sex and abortions, because he never mentioned it, and Christianity has no substance except for being nice and not judging people for their personal choices. You can do whatever you want, as long as you're nice.
Then French, having celebrated Talarico for the argument that Jesus wants you to be nice and have a lot of gay sex and abortions, approvingly offers up this quote from Talarico: "I am tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I'm tired of being told to hate my neighbor. It's been more than 10 years of this kind of politics. Politics as blood sport, politics as trolling and owning, politics as total war. It tears families apart. It ends friendships, and it leaves us all feeling terrible all the time."
Don't judge, don't hate, don't troll, don't be engaged in politics as blood sport. Be kind, decent, restrained, hesitant to judge. This, French says, is the mark of decency in politics. Speak well of others. Watch your tongue.
And then, very next step, he savages Ken Paxton. With a tone-deafness you can't exaggerate, having set up Talarico's decency and true expression of Christianity as niceness and a steadfast refusal to judge or be pitted against your neighbor, French contrasts nice Christian James Talarico to mean right-winger Ken Paxton by writing that Paxton "is an admitted adulterer, which is something that used to matter to conservative Christians."
It's a fitting end for David French's storyline is that he insists this abortion obsessed transing kids promoting "non binary God" man is more Christian than all the dedicated prolife Christians who he used to pretend to respect. https://t.co/G8ocVoebiy
BTW, Talarico has a problem, apart from his belief in a "non-binary god" of six genders.
He defeated a Strong Black Female Idiot for the nomination, with the connivance of racist talk show host Steven Colbert, and black female voters are very angry about it.
Oh, right now they're blaming Republicans, Trump, and Greg Abbot for... the fact that Steven Colbert aired a gushy interview with Talarico and that millions of white progressive racists voted against her.
But that's just cope. They know who really denied a Strong Black Female Idiot of the position she was born to be genetically entitled to.
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Remember when Stephen Colbert took to the airwaves to suggest that the Trump administration intervened at the 11th hour to intimidate his bosses into pulling an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico?
Both Colbert and Talarico knew days before the interview actually took place that it would not air on TV due to concerns from CBS lawyers, but Talarico sat down with Colbert anyway, hoping that Colbert "would tell his audience the story of federal interference," the New York Times reported.
Talarico then milked the hubbub for earned media, millions of dollars in fundraising, and a primary win over Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
All CBS wanted was for Colbert to offer equal time to the Strong Black Female Idiot.
This South Carolinian Klansman refused, absolutely.
Soon-to-be former Rep. Jasmine Crockett just broke down in tears, claiming that she got blown out in the Senate primaries because of cheating and rigging of elections. Crockett, the election denier! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/AsbfjhUkCX
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Rep. Jasmine Crockett voters are breaking down in tears on social media blaming Republicans for her loss while ignoring the fact it was a primary, meaning she was replaced with a White Democrat male by the voters.
Gunmen open fire on U.S. consulate in Canada, none injured: Police
Authorities have not identified a motive, though the incident comes amid the ongoing U.S. war against Iran and President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts, both of which have seen violent opposition within the U.S.
It's so weird that non-LE people can immediately identify a motive whereas LE "professionals" and "experts" are perpetually confused.
Police in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday announced that gunmen had fired on the U.S. consulate, resulting in no injuries.
The suspects reportedly drove a white Honda CR-V, stopped in front of the building, and fired multiple rounds, before returning to the vehicle and fleeing the scene. None were injured in the incident.
Authorities have not identified a motive, though the incident comes amid the ongoing U.S. war against Iran and President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts, both of which have seen violent opposition within the U.S.
On Monday, for instance, a counter protester went viral after he threw an explosive device at a protest organized by Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang, though it failed to detonate. Authorities are investigating a possible terrorist connection.
Although Canadian officials could not possibly name the motive we all instantly understood, they are increasing security at US and Israeli diplomatic buildings.
Just a coincidence, I'm sure. Done out of an "abundance of caution."
Canada is increasing security around U.S. and Israeli diplomatic buildings after a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto, a Canadian police official said on Tuesday.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said the consulate shooting is being investigated as a "national security incident," although it's too early to determine the motive.
Gavin Newsom's Wretched Whore-Wife Collected $3.7 Million Taxpayer Dollars for Her "Nonprofit" Which Demonized Boys and Endlessly Promoted Transgenderism and Pansexuality to Grade School Children
California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, along with her LLC, has collected a combined $3.7 million over the last decade from a nonprofit activist organization she founded. Corporations that receive millions of dollars from the California taxpayer are behind hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the nonprofit that Gov. Gavin Newsom's wife runs. [Daily Mail]
Siebel Newsom created a string of documentaries about gender, including Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. Her nonprofit, The Representation Project, promotes her documentaries and engages in activism battling "intersectional gender stereotypes" and "harmful gender norms."
The nonprofit brings in between $1 million and $1.7 million a year in grants and donations, from which about $300,000 has been going directly to Siebel Newsom and her company.
The most recent IRS filings up to March 2024 show Siebel Newsom received a $150,000 salary from The Representation Project. Her company, Girls Club LLC, received another $150,000 from The Representation Project.
Siebel Newsom and her nonprofit colleagues earn above 95% more than workers at similarly sized nonprofits, according to an analysis conducted by the Daily Mail.
There are about 23,000 charities in the IRS database of nonprofits with revenues between $1 million and $2 million. The salary for the median executive at a nonprofit the size of Siebel Newsom's is $31,945.
In 2023-2024, Siebel Newsom and her LLC received $300,000 out of the $1,704,981 gross receipts. That year, The Representation Project paid a total of nearly $1 million in compensation and spent $153,691 on fundraising.
Including the money paid to Siebel Newsom and her LLC, the nonprofit paid a total of $581,942 to its executives in 2023-2024. By comparison, the median nonprofit of similar size paid its executives a total of $132,640, or less than a quarter of The Representation Project's total executive pay.
Here's how we get to taxpayer money: Crony corporations "donated" money to her grade school Sex Club "charity," and then Newsom poured taxpayer money into those same crony corporations.
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Critics have raised numerous ethics questions over the hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to the nonprofit by companies that later received millions of dollars in California taxpayer funds.
AT&T donated $185,000 to The Representation Project from 2017 through 2020. The telecom firm received $260.4 million from the state of California in 2021. AT&T also contributed $100,000 to Gov. Newsom's inauguration fund in 2019.
That's just one example. See the article for further examples, including Comcast (owner of NBC) and PG&E.
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Last November, the California Fair Political Practices Commission fined Gov. Newsom $13,000 for failing to timely report over $14.3 million of payments made by companies and organizations to nonprofits at his behest between 2019 and 2024.
Have you seen the Gingerbread gender propaganda? That was pushed by Newsom's highly renumerative "nonprofit."
Gavin Newsom's wife has been RAKING IN $300,000 ANNUALLY through her nonprofit, while pushing films on "toxic masculinity" & gender identity in schools.
44% of CA kids can't read at a proficient level & 70% of them are BELOW PAR in math, but at least they understand LGBTQABC+ 🤡 pic.twitter.com/tuc9OBM3Qy
CNN Story Valorizes Islamic Terror Bombers, Then CNN Claims It Was Just a Mistaken Tweet
—Disinformation Expert Ace
CNN's spokespotato and inveterate liar Brian Stelter is pretending it was only the "tweet" which was egregious. But he's lying. The tweet just repeated the first sentence "lede" of the story.
The story was later stealth-edited, but people had screencapped it.
CNN deleted this tweet but perhaps the responsible thing to do would’ve been to change the lede of the piece that valorized the terrorists in New York City?
Last night, a friend mentioned how strange he found it that two Muslims would target a Muslim mayor's residence. I had to explain that that's not what happened. But it's proof of what a good job outlets like CNN have done obfuscating the truth. Together with Mayor Mamdani, the liberal media has worked assiduously to make it seem like Mamdani--rather than a group of anti-Mamdani non-violent protestors--was the real victim of Saturday's terrorism.
Ever since two ISIS-inspired terrorists, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, threw explosive devices at a group of non-violent anti-Muslim protestors in New York City on Saturday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has gone out of his way to denounce . . . the protestors--the would-be victims of the terrorist attack, had their assailants succeeded.
The protest was led by far-Right social media personality Jack Lang, who gathered 20 protestors outside Mamdani's residence, Gracie Mansion, to "Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City." They were met by 100 counterprotestors, two of whom threw IEDs at Lang and his crew. By the grace of God, the bombs didn't detonate; it had been the intent of the two terrorists to exceed by leaps and bounds the Boston Marathon bombing in casualties.
You wouldn't know it from how Mayor Mamdani described the event. His initial tweet omitted any mention of the motivation behind the attack, though one of the assailants cried out "Allahu Akbar" as the device was thrown.
Instead, Mamdani led by attacking the people who would have been the victims of a massive, violent terror attack if Balat and Kayumi had succeeded.
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This is literally liberals protecting themselves from real psychological shock and pain. When they face a reality that is completely opposite to what they believed to be true, instead of admitting they may have been wrong about terrorism over the last 20 years, their brains start rewriting the story to protect themselves from cognitive dissonance.
I think that was a good explanation ten years ago. Now they know what they're doing. They're simply in a war with us, although most of them are too meek and cowardly to do the killing themselves, so their contribution to the effort to literally murder us is to produce propaganda on behalf of tranny mass-shooters, antifa arsonists and street-fascists, and Islamofascist terrorists.
By the way, one of the terror lawyers is claiming these two Cultural Enrichment Boy Scouts never met before the day they attempted to commit mass casualty terrorism.
Not sure he realizes it, but this actually makes it infinitely worse if true. It would mean either that two Islamic terrorists independently decided to attack the same place on the same day, or that the original attacker was able to recruit another one on the spot almost… https://t.co/SBxYa20hAH
It's either 1, true but irrelevant -- many terrorists plot via email and do not meet until it is physically necessary -- or 2, just another taqiyya lie.
One of the two terrorists was videotaped throwing the bomb. This terror lawyer probably represents the other terrorist. Now, if you're a co-conspirator in any crime, you are chargeable for all of the acts mutually agreed to in furtherance of the conspiracy, even if you didn't physically perform them.
This lawyer, I am educatedly guessing, is trying to claim there is no conspiracy so that his client will not be convicted of the bombing, having not been caught on video throwing the bomb.
And that's a lie. Obviously these two Islamic radicals from Pennsylvania knew each other and conspired to kill non-Muslims who resist the Muslim invasion.
The Morning Rant: Family Dinner Is Now A Bad Thing?
—CBD
It's easy to despise the media when they willfully, transparently, stupidly misrepresent absolutely everything said and done by their political enemies. And it is abundantly clear that their political enemies are the American people.
An apparently anodyne announcement from RFK Jr., the current HHS Secretary, about the importance of preparing and eating meals with family has been tortured and manipulated and twisted into something bad. Hell, family meals used to be axiomatic in America, and the idea that there is anything remotely wrong with it is frankly insane. It is an objective good, and it is backed up with a fair amount of data that show families that eat together are better in many ways.
Whether that is cause or effect is another question, but the idea that there is anything wrong with advocating for family meals is ridiculous, and those who suggest it are stupid, or evil, and probably both.
Here is the unspeakably awful "Daily Beast," with a short video of RFK Jr's statement. How they got "anti-demons" is beyond me, but then I have not been trained as a serial liar and manipulator. I apologize in advance for the link to that sewer, but I couldn't find another video, except from another sewer rat...Don Lemon.
Secretary Kennedy’s message about the strength of community and the importance of sharing meals together should surprise absolutely no one. Like much of his and President Trump’s platform, it’s rooted in something (seemingly) fairly radical these days: common sense.
But common sense doesn’t generate clicks like outrage does. Because let’s be honest for a moment here…
It’s not bonkers to say we’re in a cultural — even spiritual — battle right now.
It’s not bonkers to say that spending more time with your community is good for your health.
It’s not bonkers to want kids spending less time glued to their phones and more time interacting with actual humans.
This is an entirely unsurprising response, because it is an entirely uncontroversial point. But the rabid left is maniacally fixated on anything that the Trump administration advocates, and they will attack it as if the administration is recommending that we eat and serve stray children and puppies for family dinner. Never mind that just a few years ago, RFK Jr. was the darling of the left, not just because of his famous name, but because he was seen as a brave warrior in the fight against traditional culture (even though he wasn't).
But now? He is a tool of TRUMP! And a traitor to boot, so he must be destroyed, even when advocating for an unalloyed good thing. Of course family meals are an integral part of traditional American culture, so the left is attacking two things here. But that is who they are...they dispose America and American Exceptionalism, and President Trump is a Colossus of those two things! They have to drag him and his supporters down into the muck!
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Over decades, they killed and wounded thousands of Americans by bombing U.S. embassies, barracks, and bases in the Middle East—without directly confronting the American military. For years, they sent lethal shaped charge IEDs to the Shiite insurgents to slaughter and maim thousands of Americans in Iraq and to the Taliban to do the same in Afghanistan. . . their massive acquisitions of air, land, and sea weapons and the empowering of terrorists, coupled with their passive-aggressive claims to victimhood, both scared and enticed President Obama into dropping sanctions. Soon, he was apologizing for supposed past sins and nocturnally sending them millions of dollars in Danegeld.
But worse by far, Obama thought he had squared the circle of neutralizing the supposed Middle Eastern Iranian juggernaut by envisioning it as an empathetic victim—and eventual friend if not ally. . . When Trump and Netanyahu are out of office, they dream of using their oil to rearm and resume their role as Chinese and Russian proxies, eventually getting the bomb, and the second time around, perhaps using it. Theocratic Iran, in its fantasies, still believes that if it ever destroyed Israel with a bomb or two, the world, especially given the recrudescence of Western antisemitism, would be appalled—for a day or two. Then it would resume business with it. And with a dozen or so deterrent nuclear-tipped missiles, the Iranian ritual boilerplate of crazed pronouncements would follow of supposedly welcoming a nuclear pathway to an eternal virginal Paradise.
Excellent observations as usual by lurker extraordinaire and Ace cruelty fanboi numero uno Prof. Victor Davis Hanson.
And of course, while the Iranian mullah-ocracy has been waging war against us for 47 years lest we forget that its driving force Islam has been waging a war of conquest against the entire world for nearly 1,500 years and regardless of the outcome this time around in Iran, please God the Muallahs are removed and a benign if not sane government and society are restored sans Islam, the latter will never stop in its eternal crusade to conquer the world.
Two Muslims threw IEDs at protesters against the Islamization of New York. The media is pushing the usual narrative that they were ‘radicalized’ and support ISIS.
There was also a bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo. . . And there was another explosion outside a synagogue in Belgium. . .
. . . Now let’s go back to that pattern thing. If there had been an explosion outside a mosque, if two Christian men had thrown IEDs at a Muslim rally and if a bomb had gone off outside a Muslim country’s embassy in the wake of a mass shooting at a Muslim restaurant… the media would spot the pattern and broadcast it as loudly as it could. Instead anyone who does is promptly lectured about ‘Islamophobia’. Because the narrative must be protected at all costs from spotting the pattern.
The press release states that during a “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer” protest outside Gracie Mansion, Balat allegedly “ignited and threw an explosive device” toward protesters. (RELATED: Mamdani Leaves Huge Policing Question Unanswered After ISIS-Linked Bomb Attack)
After throwing the device, Balat allegedly retrieved a second explosive from Kayumi down the block. Balat appeared to ignite and drop it near several New York Police Department (NYPD) officers before running away. He was quickly tackled, and both he and Kayumi were arrested by officers moments later. After his arrest, Balat told NYPD officers, “This isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet.” He claimed, “If I didn’t do it someone else will come and do it.” The press release states that Balat requested a piece of paper after arriving at the NYPD precinct, allegedly writing, “All praise is due to Allah lord of all worlds! I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. Die in your rage yu [sic] kuffar! Emir B.” Kuffar is the plural form of “kafir,” an Arabic word which means “nonbeliever” or “infidel” according to the Counter Extremism Project.
That Mamdani is as rabid as they are makes no difference had he and his wife been maimed or killed. It's the same mindset that considers the deaths of their own children and others as good propaganda to further the cause.
He told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump’s decision to strike reflects a clear America First action taken squarely in the nation’s national-security interest after diplomacy failed to stop a radical regime racing toward a hardened nuclear threshold — a precision campaign designed not to start another forever war, but to end one, restore American deterrence, and place the region on the precipice of a new Middle Eastern order. Exclusive — Urban Warfare Scholar John Spencer: Iran Strike ‘Not Iraq,’ Ends a ‘Forever War,’ Region on ‘Precipice of Peace’
In an attempt to ease concerns over spiking oil prices, President Trump has insisted that this critical chokepoint is now safe enough to pass through due to sufficient damage to Iran’s navy at the hands of the U.S. military. It’s only a matter of “guts.” The dynamics on the ground, however, are far more complicated and risky than the president and the administration seem to realize. Factor in Iran’s drones and sea mines — the latter of which haven’t reportedly been used yet — and the Strait of Hormuz crisis shows no signs of ending anytime soon. What Is Going On With The The Strait Of Hormuz?
Trump didn’t debate war into existence the way George W. Bush tried to in Iraq—he acted first, explained later, and in doing so restored the shock, surprise, and dominance America once wielded. The Masterclass
Trump’s Iran strategy isn’t nation-building or endless war—it’s regime decapitation: remove the leadership, let the country rebuild itself. The Art of the Decapitation
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Victor Davis Hanson: For decades, Iran cultivated a myth of invincibility through terror and proxies—until war exposed the regime as weaker, poorer, and far more fragile than the world had feared. Our Long Road to War With Iran
“Obama administration officials felt pressure to comply a third time...A narrow procedural safeguard within immigration law had been turned into a broad pathway...The Obama and Biden juntas tended to view mass migration as a force of nature.” The Moment Mass Migration Started
“There’s dozens of athletes who are American but represent other countries, and so what’s the big deal about her?” questioned San Francisco State University sociologist Russell Jeung, a fifth-generation Chinese American, to The San Francisco Standard. “It’s because she’s representing China and because she’s so good. I think what we need to do is go beyond this exclusive allegiance to America in this sort of xenophobic patriotism.” What’s The Point Of Immigration If They’re Still In Love With Their Ex?
The Department of Justice brought multiple charges against self-avowed ISIS supporters Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, on Monday for allegedly attempting to “detonate two explosive devices” near Gracie Mansion, the home of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the men hoped their attack would eclipse the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing which killed three people and wounded hundreds more. New York Bombers Wanted Attack ‘Bigger’ Than Boston Marathon
"This isn't a religion that stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet" (it isn't a religion period - jjs) New York City Bombers Did It for Mohammed
The edited segment suggested that Hegseth answered a question about Israel’s influence on the U.S. strikes against Iran. However, the full interview showed “60 Minutes” reporter Major Garrett asking Hegseth to respond to critics who accused the Iranian strikes of not being “America First.” CBS News Accused Of Deceptively Editing Hegseth Interview To Reframe Israeli Influence Question
If you remember in Anchorman when Brick says he loves lamp, and Ron Burgundy asks him if he’s just calling out the names of things he sees in the office and saying that he loves them, then you understand what French and Talarico are doing with religion. David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico
Stocks have been responding to a volatile oil market. Overnight, Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, briefly climbed above $110 a barrel. On Monday morning, however, it was trading at around $102. That represents a steep increase of nearly 11 percent since last week and is well above the previous three year high of around $95 a barrel. Stocks Trim Losses After Oil Price Spike
In other words, he’s showing the leadership Americans expect of our presidents (but so rarely get) — even if it polls poorly in the short term. If he’s wrong, he’ll pay a political price; if he’s right, the Democrats now trying to exploit the Iran war to bring him down will suffer. What the oil-price panic really tells you about our leaders
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
For elementary and high school students, using pencils, pens, and paper for note-taking, writing, and mathematics offers several well-supported advantages over electronic devices. The Lost Art of Note-taking
ABORTION
The alternative is the nocebo effect — more women swearing off all kinds of birth control because of bad things they hear about a few specific types. A rise in unwanted pregnancies is just one possible outcome of that trajectory. Young women are shunning birth control because of the ‘nocebo effect’
SECOND AMENDMENT
At the end of the day, the bottom won’t fall out of the criminal justice system if the Court says the federal government can’t disarm every person who occasionally takes Ambien without a prescription or takes a THC gummy on the weekend, anymore than it fell out any of the other times that gun control groups promised us the sky was falling. Three Wild Predictions About the Supreme Court’s Weed and Gun Case 100,000+ Workers Suffer as Dems Stage Anti-DHS Shutdown Theatrics
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
A noncitizen illegally present in the U.S. allegedly cast ballots in five presidential elections and falsely claimed to be a citizen when registering to vote, according to a document recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. FBI: Illegal Alien Voted In 5 Presidential Elections After He Was Supposed To Be Deported
Toth, who defeated Crenshaw Tuesday in the Republican primary for Crenshaw’s House seat, is endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is his bid to defeat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the primary runoff to represent the Lone Star State in the United States Senate. Exclusive – Steve Toth Endorses Ken Paxton for Senate over John Cornyn
The lawsuit alleges that Jones, who has President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race, made three separate “defamatory” statements about Jackson on social media this past week. The complaint was filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County this morning, according to Jackson’s campaign. (RELATED: GOP Rep Kevin Kiley, Doomed By Gavin Newsom’s Gerrymander, Throws Hail Mary To Save Career) Leading GOP Candidate In Georgia Governor’s Race Sues Trump-Backed Opponent For Defamation
Oil prices climbed since President Donald Trump announced the United States military and Israel Defense Forces launched military strikes against Iran early Feb. 28. WTI Futures Crude Oil closed Friday at $90.90, up over $20 from the market’s Feb. 27 close, the day before the strikes, according to Investing.com. Burgum said Venezuela was “rich, rich. rich” in crucial minerals in addition to oil. ‘They See Great Opportunity’: Interior Secretary Burgum Shows How US-Venezuela Partnership Is Already Paying Dividends
Stop handing our hared-earned dollars to an institution whose only interest in America is to bleed it for more. Defund The U.N.
Heather Mac Donald: Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland keeps surging ahead. Border control and sane energy policy may be in Europe’s future after all. (Heather, you forget Islam - jjs) The Global Elites Lose Again
The interview, which took place on Feb. 4 before Trump picked Mullin to succeed outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, is a big deep-dive into China’s expansionist vision and the efforts of the American government to counter those. Breitbart News had been planning to release the interview closer to Trump’s upcoming trip to China, where he is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in early April, but since Trump shocked the world by selecting Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)... Exclusive: Incoming DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin Warns of Chinese Communist Threat in Long-Form Interview Exposing Belt and Road Initiative
Key issues driving Colombian voters to the polls are, like in most of the region, crime and economics. Colombia has reached record cocaine production, and terrorist groups like the ELN and Clan del Golfo largely run around with impunity. Violence is on the rise, especially in rural areas, and national security has deteriorated overall. Economically, inflation is high and unemployment hovers around 10.9%. In addition to crime and the economy, a lot voters just want anyone but Petro because he's become an international laughingstock, his policies have largely failed, and he's been involved in various corruption scandals. Will Colombia Follow Its Neighbors and Make a Right-Wing Comeback?
The object, PMR-1, is about 5,000 light years away and has apparently not been studied very much in the past. In 2013 astronomers used the Spitzer Space Telescope to get a first look in the infrared, at a much lower resolution. They also gave this object a nickname, the “Exposed Cranium” nebula. Webb takes a look at a strange planetary nebula
Based on this bill, it does really appear that the Senate has finally recognized that SLS — and the government itself — is not the way the United States is going to colonize the solar system. They appear to have finally realized, after almost a half century of resistance, that for the American government to conquer the heavens, the government must rely on the American people to do it. The Senate cries “Uncle!” on SLS and big goverment with its latest NASA authorization bill
(Blindness is not just in the optic nerve/visual cortex - JJS) “It is you, and you know who you are,” he lectured. “You need to overcome hate. You need to overcome the mindset of white supremacy…You shall overcome the need to dominate every single country and its people.” Video: Stevie Wonder Lectures White People to ‘Overcome the Mindset of White Supremacy’
HITHER & YON
Modern Westerners are increasingly ignorant of the Holocaust, let alone the crimes against humanity committed in the Gulag Archipelago and the Anatolian hinterland. Requiem for the Christians of Anatolia
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That's Execution Rock in Long Island Sound. It was built 175 years ago as a lighthouse, but the rocks have obviously been there forever, and supposedly were used as a method of execution. Criminals were chained to the rocks at low tide, and....
It's a convenient marker for boaters, and when I used to sail on the Sound we would usually go past it. If anyone knows the area it is between New Rochelle and Glen Cove. The sailing is good...sometimes, but that end of Long Island Sound is known for light airs. For the really fun stuff you have to go out to the other end of the Sound, near where it meets Block Island Sound and then the Atlantic.
Oddly, in spite of the catastrophic rise in sea levels that will inundate the Eastern Seaboard, it looks pretty much the same as it did when the lighthouse was built. Probably some local gravitational vortex and of course the Jooo's Weather Machine keeps it from being flooded.
[Sorry about the music; it's a good song, but I couldn't find anything with "execution in it!]
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"We have charged the two alleged ISIS-inspired terrorists who attempted to bomb a protest in New York City," Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X on Monday afternoon. "We will not allow ISIS's poisonous, anti-American ideology to threaten this nation. Our law enforcement officers will remain vigilant."
The charges include providing material support to a terrorist organization and using a weapon of mass destruction.
The Terror Teens hoped to murder more people than their heroes, the Muslims who bombed the Boston Marathon.
In the NYPD vehicle en route to the NYPD precinct, BALAT, without being questioned by the NYPD officers transporting him, made the following spontaneous utterances, in part and as captured on the transporting NYPD officers' body-worn camera footage: 'this isn't a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet... We take action! We take action!'; and "'I didn't do it someone else will come and do it.'
After arriving at the precinct and being advised of, and waiving, his Miranda rights, BALAT requested a piece of paper and, after being given a paper and pen, wrote the following: 'All praise is due to Allah lord of all worlds! I pledge my allegience [sic] to the Islamic State. Die in your rage yu [sic] kuffar! Emir B.' Based on my training and experience, I know that "kuffar" is an Arabic term that refers to 'non-believers' or 'infidels,' and that 'Die in your rage' is a slogan used by ISIS and based on a verse in the Quran.
Law enforcement officers later asked BALAT if he was familiar with the Boston Marathon bombing, and if that was what BALAT had hoped to accomplish. BALAT responded: 'No, even bigger. It was only three deaths.'
Pro-terrorist leftwingers justify Muslim terrorism:
The leftwing media rushed to justify the attempted terrorist bombing, saying that "provocateurs" were targeted, so, shrug:
since you're suggesting that violence against "provocateurs' is justified, am I right in assuming the right is equally permitted to throw bombs at leftwing provocateurs? Or nah? @donniehttps://t.co/avmXZZegia
Iran Names New "Supreme Leader," Who Is Immediately "Injured" In An Airstrike
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A commenter pointed out on Friday that there are numerous "Ayatollahs," but only one "Supreme Leader." I had mistaken the word "Ayatollah" as meaning "Supreme Leader," which it doesn't.
Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman
9h
🚨Iranian state TV just announced: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been "elected" as the new Supreme Leader! - @TreyYingst
Sometimes Trump is funny. He announced that Mojtaba did not have the endorsement of the real leader of Iran, himself, and so would not "last long" in the position.
Defiant L's
@DefiantLs
3h
Trump issues a warning to the new Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei,
"He's going to have to get approval from us... If he doesn't got approval from us, he's not going to last long."
Raylan Givens
@JewishWarrior13
🚨 WSJ: Trump to his aides: I will support the elimination of Mojtaba Khamenei if he does not agree to give up the nuclear program
The Israelis are said to be hunting for him.
This has not been confirmed, but there are claims he's already been hit in an airstrike:
Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby
2h
BREAKING: Mojtaba Khamenei was reportedly severely injured, one of his legs has been amputated, and he may not even be aware that he is the Supreme Leader.
I don't know if I buy these reports. I first heard speculation that he had already been injured when Iran TV described him as "an injured war veteran." People took that to mean he was injured in this war. But I think they were likely just giving him some Stolen Valor to make him sound like a tough-guy hero and not an impotent dicksucking pussy.
Podcast: CBD is joined by Buck Throckmorton (the EV industry's worst nightmare)... we discuss how the template of the Marshall Plan and "You Break It You Bought It" has been discredited by President Trump, Mexico is a flashpoint or an opportunity, more EV debacles, should we reserve employment for US citizens only, and more!
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
NOW: The crowd goes TOTALLY SILENT when Biden tells them HE closed the border -- not Trump
Even a crowd full of DEMOCRATS know that's a total lie
Maybe having a dementia patient out there attempting to rewrite history ain't the brightest idea, @DNC
Nancy Mace to force a House vote of sexual misconduct report and harassment by congress members and staff. The wood chipper is no respecter of persons. Do it.
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Podcast: Sefton and CBD Talk SOTU and the Dem's vile behavior, Donald Trump's love of country, Iran is coming to a head, is Mexico intractable, Mamdani's NYC is circling the drain, and more!
Forgotten Early 80s Schmatlz Mystery Click Honey, I was your hero
And you were my leading lady
We had it all
Just like Bogie and Bacall
Ooof, it's worse than I remembered.
China Is Not Our Fren: Chinese government posts AI generated content featuring attacking and killing American soldiers. Pay attention to the ridiculous AI banter of the US soldiers. [dri]
